SANTA BARBARA , Calif. (KEYT) - The Santa Barbara Neighborhood Advisory Council has taken the first steps to change the name of Calle Cesar Chavez Street in Santa Barbara.

It got that name in 2000 with community support to change a portion of Salsipuedes Street, south of Gutierrez to Cabrillo Blvd. to Calle Cesar Chavez.

Recently, it was revealed the late United Farm Workers leader was accused of committing rape and having sex with underaged girls. Many cities and counties have since removed the name Cesar Chavez from schools, government buildings and other places where he was once honored.

In Santa Barbara, Chavez has history and visited the region often, event assisting in teaching at UC Santa Barbara about the farmworkers union efforts and Chicano culture.

At Monday's meeting, historian Michael Montenegro presented some background on Salsipuedes street.

The council decided to forward options to the Santa Barbara City Council for a full discussion. If the street is renamed it could be: Si se Puede, Calle Dolores Huerta or a name chosen by the Coastal Band of Chumash Indians.

The tribe has not been contacted but outreach will be taking place.

The city council can also come up with its own name. No date for that meeting has been set at this time.

Some business owners in the area were not happy with the proposed change because of the cost to replace signs and business materials with the current address in place.

One suggested the street return to its original name Salsipuedes and not be changed again.

(More details, video and photos will be added here later today.)

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SANTA MARIA, Calif. (KEYT) - A planned package delivery warehouse has received approval by Santa Maria and will soon bring hundreds of new jobs to the growing city.

The Santa Maria Planning Commission recently voted 2-1 in favor of the project that is planned for a 32-acre site on West Stowell Road.

According to the City, the planned delivery warehouse will serve as the final step in the e-commerce fulfillment process, operating 24/7 to deliver goods to customers within 125 square miles adjacent to the location.

The developer of the project is Seefried Development Management, Inc., which has built similar warehouse facilities for Amazon.

However, the City of Santa Maria will not confirm at the current time if Amazon will operate the facility that will include 240,000 square feet of warehouse and industrial space.

"The city is under a non-disclosure agreement at the moment, which is very common in these types of projects," said Chenin Dow, Santa Maria Community Development Director. "We will announce that and look forward to doing that as soon as we can. With that said, from a land use perspective, it really doesn't matter who the company is in terms of what the decision that the Planning Commission is making. What they look at is, is this use appropriate with the context of what is nearby? Is it appropriate given the zoning? Is it appropriate given the traffic impacts and all of the things studying in the EIR (Environmental Impact Report) The end user will provide all of those inputs that affect all of those elements, regardless of the name of the company at the end of the day."

Based on the information provided by the developer, the City has estimated the warehouse will create approximately 800 jobs.

"500 of those are contract positions, where 300 are directly employed by the company, said Dow. "They've also indicated to us their company policy is that any employee of the project is able to access education funding, so they will pay for college. That goes beyond Alan Hancock (College) or a local college. They will cover UCSB for their members. They will cover Cal Poly, so huge opportunities associated with that workforce."

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